On Wednesday 01 January 2003 10:41, Axel Haenssen wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>I am trying to back up a couple of bigger partitions on my Beowulf
> cluster. Some of these Partitions are bigger than the tapes. But
> that shouldn't work anyway shouldn't it????
>I am attaching the mailreport for clarification.
>How do I get it to back up the big partitions on the nodes???

Break them up into subdir entries that are smaller than a tape in 
your disklist.  This BTW only works for Tar, not dump as dump does 
whole filesystems only.

My whole /usr is handled this way because its a bit more than 40 
gigs & I have only DDS2 tapes.  Works great, and seems to give 
amanda a much better chance at achieving "balance" because she can 
juggle the schedules for the individual entry much easier.

Also, when doing this, check the individual dirsize with du, and 
only add about half a tapes worth of new entries each run until you 
have them all covered.  That way amanda can merge the new entries 
into the schedule gracefully without overflowing a single tape 
which might occur if you added them all on the same day.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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